"We wish we were doing it, of course, under much better circumstances," Axl Rose told the crowd, "but this man was loved." As the last notes of "Black Hole Sun" faded away, Rose added simply, "For Chris."
Bassist Duff McKagan had close ties to Cornell as part of the Seattle music community, and the two performed together with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in 2015 as part of a reunited lineup of the local supergroup Mad Season.
Cornell was laid to rest during a private memorial service at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles on May 26 after being found dead in a Detroit hotel following a Soundgarden concert at the city's Fox Theatre on May 17. Watch the tribute performance
here.
"We're the hardest-working band in show business," Simmons tells Glasgow Live during the group's current UK tour. "I wear over forty pounds of studs and armor and all that stuff, seven-inch platform heels, spit fire and have to fly through the air and do all that stuff. If Bono or Mick Jagger, who we all love, had to dress up and do what I do, they couldn't last an hour - they just couldn't.
"In hindsight," he continued, "it would have been smarter to be a U2 or The Stones, to wear some sneakers and a t-shirt and you're comfortable. No, we had to do it the hard way.
"So we're not gonna be able to do it into our 70s, and I'm 67 now. We'll do it for a few more years, and then when we think it's time to go, we'll go, and we'll do it the right way, with a big party. I'd like to think that we would do something that rocks the planet - something big and worldwide and maybe free."
Simmons co-founded KISS with Paul Stanley in New York in January of 1973 from the ashes of the pair's previous band, Wicked Lester. Lead guitarist Ace Frehley and drummer Peter Criss rounded out the band's original, classic lineup, which was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. Watch the full interview
here.
Haynes wrote the following tribute that same day on his Facebook page, "RIP Gregg Allman - I am at a loss for words. I was moved by Gregg's voice when I first heard the Allman Brothers Band in 1969. I was nine years old. I had not even picked up a guitar yet but thanks to my to older brothers I had been exposed to a lot of great soul music with the best singers in the world. But this was something different. This music was making a deep emotional connection with me even though it was too complex for me to really understand. Somehow, though, it had this "common man" quality that allowed that music to connect with people on so many different levels without analyzing the ingredients that went into it-soul, blues, rock, country, jazz-all mixed together in a way no one had ever done before. And on top of it all was this beautiful voice that could be soothing, terrifying, mellow, angry, and amazingly natural and soulful all at the same time-and instantly captivating. It drew me in. It drew us all in.
"Over the next few years I would begin to play guitar as everyone of my music loving friends became Allman Brothers' freaks. That music spoke to anyone who heard it but in the South it resonated with us. It spoke volumes. It brought a voice to people like myself in the midst of some confusing, ever-changing times. Here was this group of Southern hippies with an integrated band coming out of the Deepest South with equally deep music on the heels of some extremely deep changes. We didn't realize how heavy that was at the time but we sure realized how heavy the music was. Every guitar player in every Southern town was listening to the Live at Fillmore East record and worshipping at the altar of Duane Allman and Dickey Betts. But the icing on the cake was always Gregg's voice. That's what separated the ABB from being a band that only connected with music freaks. Women whom previously had only listened to the radio would tolerate the long jams to get to the parts where Gregg melted their souls with that angelic voice. It turned casual music fans into fanatical fans who were discovering a new multi-dimensional music that a few years prior wasn't even in existence. And it was all due to Gregg's voice-and the songs." Read more
here.
The band's seventh album sold 111,000 equivalent album units (including the streaming metric) in its first week with 100,000 in actual album sales, reports Billboard.
Linkin Park joins a small list of rock bands that have delivered at least six US No. 1 albums, including The Beatles (with 19), The Rolling Stones (nine), Led Zeppelin and U2 (both with seven), and Bon Jovi, Dave Matthews Band, Eagles and Metallica - all with six each. Read more
here.
The new road trip will visit 10 cities and is scheduled to kick off on October 11th in Calgary, AB at the Southern Alberta Jubilee and will wrap up on October 22nd in Abbotsford, BC at the Abbotsford Centre.
The veteran band's new musical, "Juke Box Hero", will be opening in Alberta in 2018 and is based on a screenplay by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (The Commitments, Across The Universe, and The Tracey Ullman TV Show). Read more
here.
Ian told Duke TV (via Blabbermouth), "Yes, we would love to work with Lady Gaga. I think we put that out there a while ago. And then when we found out she was doing the Grammys with Metallica, I was, like, 'Wow! It makes sense. They're gonna be on a big TV show and do it together.' And I actually thought she was great on it.
"I've said since the beginning, since the first time I ever heard her voice, I always thought, 'Wow, I would really love to hear her sing on a rock record, metal record, whatever. And then our drummer, Charlie, ended up meeting her at a show and they became friends. And she knows all about Anthrax and Metallica and all these bands� whoever - name the band. She's a metalhead. So that made it even cooler. The fact that, all right, she knows that world, she understands that world, and she can sing the sh*t out of this kind of music." Read more
here.
The new album, Goldfinger's first in nine years, will also feature appearances from 311 frontman Nick Hexum, Mighty Mighty Boss Tones guitarist Nate Albert, Twenty One Pilots' Josh Dun, ONE OK ROCK's Takahiro Moriuchi and others.
John Feldmann had this to say, "I took my time making this record...Nine years to be exact! I feel like I've made the most concise Goldfinger record in my career. We have all Goldfinger styles together as one, with Zakk Cervini, who mixed the Blink-182 record, and Travis Barker on drums, I couldn't be more proud of an album."
Fans can get an early taste of what is to come with the online stream of the track "Put The Knife Away"
here.
Due June 9, the set was introduced by the lead single, "In My World", and will be debuted live during a series of summer dates across North America starting June 21 in Atlanta, GA.
"We've always had a particular musical relationship since he first joined the band - it was immediate," McVie tells the Daily Express. "The whole band was just chemistry abounding but Lindsey and I, me being the piano player and him the guitar player, understand each other musically without saying anything.
"We've always worked well together over the years but never thought about doing an album together until recently and now we wonder why we didn't think about doing it before." Stream the new song
here.
The film was captured during the legendary rock band's performance at the Nepstadion in Budapest on July 27, 1986 and according to the announcement it occurred during frontman Freddie Mercury's final tour with the band.
The network also says that it was the biggest stadium concert of all time (attendance figures were not included) and supposedly marked the first time that a western rock band played a stadium concert behind the iron curtain. Check out a preview clip of their performance of "Bohemian Rhapsody"
here.
The band features Mike Patton (Faith No More, Tomahawk), Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, Misfits), Justin Pearson (The Locust, Retox) and Michael Crain (Retox, Festival of Dead Deer).
The tour is scheduled to begin on August 10th in Santa Ana, CA at The Observatory and will run until September 23rd where it will wrap up with a show at the Ogden Theatre in Denver, CO. Read more and see the dates
here.
The new studio effort is band's first new released in six years. It is set to be released on July 7th and is billed as a return to the sound of their acclaimed 1990 self-titled debut album.
The album features the reunited lineup of original members Campbell, Rob Lamothe (vocals, guitars) and Nick Brophy (bass, vocals) as well as long time drummer Marc Danzeisen. Stream the new song
here.
The song comes from the band's just released studio album "Amber Galactic". The group had the following to say about the track, "Almost everyone, no matter who they are, have experienced one, or perhaps even a few, epic nights in their lives.
"That night when you met the love of your life, and you couldn't go to sleep because your heart was beating too fast out of pure excitement and joy. That night when you lost the love of your life. The night when you thought that no matter what happens next, I'll remember this night for the rest of my life.
"Something Mysterious is a song about standing at that crossroads, gathering the courage to take that plunge into the unknown, knowing your life will never be the same again." Watch the video
here.
The event will feature performances from Marilyn Manson, Halestorm, Mastodon, Gojira, In This Moment, Steel Panther, August Burns Red, Beartooth, Starset, Radkey, Bleeker, Badflower, DED, While She Sleeps, Black Map, Greta Van Fleet, He Is Legend, Biters, Them Evils, and more to be announced.
Five Finger Death Punch's Zoltan Bathory had this to say, "Rock Allegiance has become a staple on the U.S. festival circuit. It's one of the coolest festivals out there for fans to discover new music and see their favorite bands live. We are excited to return this year to see our friends and fans in Philly. Don't miss it! It will be another great one this year." Read more
here.
The special event will be taking place from January 4th and 8th with five days and four nights of activities including three electric sets and one acoustic performance from Taking Back Sunday.
The band will also be hosting a special karaoke night with fans and meet and greet session. Frank Iero and the Patience will also be playing 3 electric shows and one acoustic as well as a Q&A session with Iero. Read more
here.
The inaugural event is scheduled to take place on February 9th through 11th of next year in at the Wyndham Garden Sterling Heights, just outside of the duo's native Detroit.
They had the following to say, "We've always said if we did a convention it would be this way and that way... and it's finally all serious now and this is actually happening! We are excited out of this world - pardon the pun but we feel strongly that we can and will turn this into an annual event that will become a staple in entertainment amongst the convention scene. Growing up as nerdies we've attended everything from Comic Cons to Star Trek Conventions so we know what we, as nerdies, want this to be."
"Die on My Ride" was written while I was in a very dark mood. It was right after our second tour in October 2016. I had some personal struggles going on and found it hard to keep up with what I was doing and fighting for what I believe in. So that was the tone of the song, dark, nasty, but there is a little bit hope at the same time.
Confronting challenges from society, opinion, and the most harsh thing, yourself, your own doubt, is what made things harder. "Die on My Ride" is about everyone. We all have this kind of struggle, being pushed around by people, being given a model of behaviors and being questioned for your true self.
The song is about the darkness and the challenge, but it is also about a warrior spirit: that we have decided to die for whatever we are trying to achieve and having no regret for it, because we believe in the deepest truth that no one else can see. Only you can see it, so you decide to go for it, and you embrace the spirit of dying on this ride.
All the melodies and instruments are recorded in a twisted and dark texture, only piano parts give the final touch of our hope and love. I think it is pretty clear musically that what the song is about.
Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself here and learn more about the album
right here!
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